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During the 90's there used to be a steward, or someone of similar ilk, who you'd sometimes see wandering around the perimeter of the ground before and after or during half time - he had a big black curly perm and a sourness style moustache and everyone would get up from their seats and start giving him the harry enfield scouse refrain 'eh, calm down, calm down'. That used to make me laugh, poor bloke, he probably wasn't even scouse.
Not at the Lane but at the '93 Semi-Final at Wembley, a day I'd rather forget. As I took my seat, I looked and sat behind me was the shit 80s comedian Bobby Davro and his missis. As the teams came out on the pitch I heard his missis pipe up 'Which one's Tottenham then?', Bobby mumbled an embarrassed reply.
What a waste of a ticket.
What a waste of a ticket.
Does that make her a 'shit missus' too... by association?
Same thing used to happen when Linda Lusardi and Co used to walk around the perimeter throwing packets of monkey nuts into the crowd. The bags of nuts would get thrown back to the tune of "get yer tits out, get yer tits out for the lads".
i imagine it may have been a "fucking Jenas" joke tbf.
Stupidest thing i've heard at the Lane... has to be this;
It's a FILM SCORE ffs... nothing to do with Tottenham Hotspur at all!!
I still don't get why they play it... 'cos it sounds a little Dramatic and Choral...??
Well so does Macnamara's Band if you play it slow enough... very menacing!!
It's a FILM SCORE ffs... nothing to do with Tottenham Hotspur at all!!
I still don't get why they play it... 'cos it sounds a little Dramatic and Choral...??
Well so does Macnamara's Band if you play it slow enough... very menacing!!
Mr G me in the Irish centre a couple of years ago "Get rid of Walker he can't defend and Rose is a red card waiting to happen"I'll hold my hands up on that one.
Back in the day" Glenda your a ponch get the facking boot in" us youngsters knew what we were watching.... Ghod.
If we're going to include shite talked in the irish centre we'll be here all night. "get rid Bale is a joaner"
Duel of fates: Epic musical score about the coming together of two great opponents in a glorious battle of good v's evil.
MacNamara's band: Song about some musical paddys.
To be honest, I know what would rouse me more before taking on an opponent.
Funny... but that's the point. The 'Film Score' music only tricks the players into believing they're actually taking part in a Film version of the game; where it doesn't matter if you go a goal down, the script will dictate you win out eventually....
It lulls them into a false sense of security... 'cos sometimes, the Film's rubbish and it has a lousy ending!
Not always, granted... but I'd rather they had the jaunty jingle of OUR History bouncing round their heads, than some 'epic' Music that's 5 minutes old and anyone could use!
I'd still prefer to listen to a rousing war theme than a jaunty jingle, I want our players preparing for battle, to be psyched up to destroy the opposition, not to let them pass us by with little more than a top'o'the morning because they are feeling jovial and nostalgic.
I'm not entirely sold on the 'Ready or Not' remix either, feels like an X Factor intro, I kind of expect to see Simon Cowell and some judges walking out of the tunnel....
As for the crowd, I've been at the lane several times to hear Defoe getting dogs abuse, then scoring a vital goal, being called a 'West Ham reject':llorisunsure:
As for the crowd, I've been at the lane several times to hear Defoe getting dogs abuse, then scoring a vital goal, being called a 'West Ham reject':llorisunsure:
Not technically heard but saw a Korean fan buoy put the one of these on in the ground yesterday.... made me laugh as looked like he had grew a beard during the second half......
What's your avatar MV? Looks like a nice firm on the Embankment.
1982 Chelsea in the cup the ob would not let us walk down the kings road so we had to walk the embankment
The Irish centre reminded me of a classic. I had moved to Suffolk and agreed to meet my dad and his mates at the Irish centre before a home match. The week before there had been large demos in London from people wanting to protect rural lifestyles, like shooting animals and so on.
Anyway I get to the Irish centre, grab a beer and a few minutes later in troops the old man and the rest of the Somerset posse, this spurs fan near me turns to his mate and says ' fucking hell here comes the countryside alliance'
It took me a good few minutes to stop laughing......